InstaUser: Is there a step by step for scripting newbies?

[mgb123]

I’m doing pretty well- in the last week I’ve managed to:
-Use the base script
-Download LanRev and Iceberg and make a custom pkg
-ReImage a G5 from an Intel built image
-Use the Insaller Choices file to create a dramatically smaller base image

But the one thing that I haven’t done is use the InstaUser Script. Basically because I don’t really know how.

I’ve searched, and most posts regarding InstaUser are issue specific.

If someone would be so kind as to either create, or point me in the right direction, I’d really like to get cracking on an InstaUser account…I just really can’t figure out role of each of the parts of the InstaUser setup.

I have seen the start up script, I’ve seen the package, and I’ve seen the payload. I’ve seen the default account settings and I understand that I should change them to what I’d like.

What I don’t understand is how to fit it into the whole InstaDMG process, what the best practices should be, and what a password hash is-or more specifically how it applies here.

If anyone has a second to help introduce me to these terms and ideas I’d be very grateful.

[Patrick Fergus]

See the reply at Wednesday, March 05 2008 @ 05:17 pm CST here:

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=45&showtopic=19893&highlight=XXXXX[/url]

>What I don’t understand is how to fit it into the whole InstaDMG process,
>what the best practices should be, and what a password hash is-or more
>specifically how it applies here.

InstaUser allows you to create a canned user, since you’ll want to have your local admin already set up in your base image. You’ll want to include your customized version of the pkg so you have a unique password and admin username (if desired). The password hash is what OS X creates when you set the password of a particular user–installing [i]that[/i] rather than coding the password into a script keeps the password away from prying eyes.

You’re simply dropping the files usually get created when you first turn the machine on and create the initial user.

– Patrick

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